Hide/unhide elements in diagram by type/stereotype

[MOF_Frank_CHENG]

We are trying to create deployment diagrams with multiple views. It would be great to have a way to have hide/unhide objects and relationships based on Type & Stereotype.

It appears that the only option we have now is to make a copy of the diagram and selectively delete elements. The "Select By Type" feature is helpful but unfortunately it does allow selecting relationships.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Gets my vote...

Set Feature Visibility [Ctrl+Shift+y] already has this concept (or enough of it) for Features, but it would be useful for Vertexes and Arcs as well.

Paolo

[MOF_Frank_CHENG]

Thanks Paolo,

After a bit more investigation, I found another feature that is also helpful. Set Visible Relations from the Current Connector toolbar[Ctrl+Shift+i] allows hiding/displaying individual relationships. This should be enough to create the layered diagram approach that I am trying to produce. What would be great is to take this a step further and allow hiding/displaying objects and relationships by type and stereotype and saving these settings as named diagram views. For example, an infrastructure diagram might have a deployment view, a security view, communication view, etc. This capability would be significantly enhance reuse.

[«Midnight»]

Very much so.

I've always felt this was something of an omission. It seems almost strange that it is has not found its way into the product.

High time it does!

[skiwi]

I am very keen on this too, to allow more reuse of diagrams etc.

[Thelonius]

This is something that would be extremely useful to me.

+1

[MatthiasH]

+1 !!!

It is not the first time this general idea comes up:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1249473871

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1241160674

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1245298266

I think I sent this also as Feature Request to Sparx as a consequence of one of the topics listed above.

Regards,
Matthias